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The 2026 IMS Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Awardees have been announced:

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Call for invited session proposals
2026 IMS Annual Meeting
July 6-9, 2026
Salzburg, Austria
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The Committee on Special Lectures is accepting nominations for:

* 2027 & 2028 IMS Wald Awards & Lectures
* 2027 IMS Le Cam Award & Lecture
* 2027 IMS Grace Wahba Award & Lecture
* 2028 IMS Medallion Awards & Lectures

Deadline: Oct. 1

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Call for Papers
Annals of Applied Statistics
Special Issue: Statistics and Artificial Intelligence

More information here:
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Bonds Beats the Babe! Statistical Model Crowns a New ‘Greatest’ in Baseball

The IMS journal, Annals of Applied Statistics, was mentioned in the NYT today.

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NASEM has assembled an interdisciplinary ad hoc committee to produce a decadel-like assessment of the current state of the statistical sciences and emerging opportunities for the discipline and its stakeholders as they look ahead to 2035 and beyond.

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The IMS Committee on Special Lectures is accepting nominations:

* 2027 & 2028 IMS Wald Awards & Lectures
* 2027 IMS Le Cam Award & Lecture
* 2027 IMS Grace Wahba Award & Lecture
* 2028 IMS Medallion Awards & Lectures

Deadline is October 1.

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Cover page of August 2025 issue of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Bulletin

Download your free copy of the August 2025 IMS Bulletin: imstat.org/wp-content/u.... Contents at imstat.org/archive-vol-...

Nomination Deadline: July 1

The IMS Thelma and Marvin Zelen Emerging Women Leaders in Data Science Award

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DEADLINE: July 1
Lawrence D. Brown Ph.D. Student Award

More details, including eligibility and application requirements, can be found at:

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Writing Workshop for Junior Researchers 2025 Pre-Registration Deadline Approaching! Sharpen your academic writing skills and get matched with a senior mentor—join the 2025 NISS Writing Workshop. Pre-register by June 16

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Cover of June/July 2025 issue of the IMS Bulletin

The PDF version of the June/July 2025 IMS Bulletin is online. Download your free copy: imstat.org/wp-content/u... (or read at imstat.org/news/)
The next deadline is July 1, then August 15. Contact us to submit an article, an obituary, some news or an announcement. Email bulletin@imstat.org.

Congratulations to the 2025 Class of IMS Fellows!

Each Fellow has demonstrated distinction in research in statistics or probability or has demonstrated leadership that has profoundly influenced the field.

See the new Fellows here: imstat.org/2025/05/05/c...

Chengchun Shi of the London School of Economics and Political Science has received the 2025 Peter Gavin Hall IMS Early Career Prize.

Read more here:

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Statistics in the Age of AI: Solving Real-World Problems in Industry. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. The IMS New Researcher Group is organizing a virtual panel discussion. This event brings together statisticians working across a range of industries—including tech and healthcare— to share how statist...

IMS New Researchers Group Virtual Panel

Statistics in the Age of AI: Solving Real-World Problems in Industry

May 16th, 9-10am PT

Register here:
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Applications for the 25th New Researchers Conference (NRC) are open.

NRC 2025
Jul 31 - Aug 2
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
Just before the JSM

nrc2025.github.io

Deadline: May 15

Exciting news in the global statistics community! Grace Wahba was awarded the prestigious 2025 International Prize in Statistics for her groundbreaking work on smoothing splines, which revolutionized data analysis and machine learning. www. statprize.org/index.cfm